Situation in Balkans won’t improve on its own, US General says (VoA, N1, Danas)
The appointment of Matthew Palmer as the US special envoy to the Western Balkans proves how much it is important for the American diplomacy that Kosovo and Serbia reach a long-lasting solution, a retired US Army General Ben Hodges has told the Voice of America (VOA) on Thursday, adding Belgarde and Pristina leaders should have […]
Read More →Last year 228.000 persons left Balkans, 51.000 left Serbia and 34.500 left Kosovo (Serbian Times, KoSSev)
Last year 51.000 persons have left Serbia and went to the EU countries, while the highest number of migrants comes from Albania 62.000 and Bosnia and Herzegovina 53.500. Meanwhile, 34.500 persons have left Kosovo, 24.300 North Macedonia and 3.000 persons left Montenegro, KoSSev portal reports referring to Eurostat data. The highest percentage of Albanian citizens […]
Read More →NATO: Scientists say no health risks from depleted uranium used in 1999 bombing (FoNet, N1, BBC)
NATO deputy spokesperson and the head of Press and Media Piers Cazalet told BBC in Serbian on Thursday there was no health risk from depleted uranium used in the Alliance’s bombing of former Yugoslavia during the 1998-1999 was in Kosovo. Serbia’s media reported that the German soldiers who took part in NATO missions in the […]
Read More →In Balkans highest concentration of jihadist returnees, Kosovo leads (KoSSev)
The Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) in its analysis entitled “Western Balkans Foreign Fighters and Homegrown Jihadis: Trends and Implications” reports that since 2012, about 1,070 citizens of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro travelled to Syria and Iraq, primarily joining the Islamic State, and to a lesser extent al-Qaeda (Jabhat al […]
Read More →Dacic: Nobody can say whether we’ll join EU in 2025 (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday that no one can say precisely whether Serbia will become a member of the EU by 2025, B92 reports. 2025 was in the past mentioned by European Commission (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker, but only as a tentative date. Dacic said that Serbia will do everything in […]
Read More →EU’s Tusk: Situation in the Balkans almost boiling over (N1, Beta)
Reconciliation with neighbours is important and requires great efforts, European Council President Donald Tusk said in Warsaw on Saturday, warning that “the historical baggage will evoke demons” if no effort is invested in this process. “I see what is happening as in some places e.g. in the Balkans, where the situation is almost boiling over,” […]
Read More →Mogherini: Do your best for your people or wait for better times (Tanjug, B92)
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says there are two options for leaders in the Western Balkans – to target high or to do nothing. “If you are a political leader in a complicated country and a complicated region, you can choose to target high and achieve the best for your people and country, or […]
Read More →Former MEP Doris Pack speaks out against border changes in Western Balkans (N1, Radio Free Europe)
The European Parliament’s former rapporteur on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Doris Pack, spoke out on Tuesday against changes to borders in the Balkans. Former MEP expressed surprise over the fact that the Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, support the proposed territory swap between Serbia and Kosovo. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia […]
Read More →US President says Skopje – Athens name deal should inspire other regional states (N1, Beta)
Donald Trump, the US President, told Zoran Zaev, North Macedonia’s Prime Minister, that his deal with Greece on the country’s new name was the greatest achievement in the Balkans since the 1995 Dayton Agreement which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Beta news agency reported. In a letter published by Skopje Government, Trump […]
Read More →EC: If Western Balkans’ countries don’t join EU, we risk return to 1990s (N1, FoNet)
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission (EC), said in Brussels on Wednesday that there was a high risk of the restoration of the 1990s if the Western Balkans countries did not have a perspective of joining the European Union, the FoNet news agency reported. Speaking after talks with the Slovenian President Borut Pahor, […]
Read More →Will Balkans be disappointed? (B92, Dnevni Avaz)
On January 1, Romania assumed the presidency of the European Union. Until June 30, Bucharest will be the center of many European events. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker commented on this in unusually directly with a statement expressing suspicion that Romania was ready for the role, Sarajevo-based Dnevni Avaz is reporting. “They are technically well-prepared. […]
Read More →“Serb Republic will break away from Bosnia” (B92, NIN, Tanjug)
The Serb Republic (RS) will separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), above all because Serbs are extremely dissatisfied with the common life. Former British diplomat Timothy Less told this to Belgrade weekly NIN in an interview. “They feel that their security is threatened by Sarajevo’s policy and are deeply hurt by the imposed decisions, especially during the […]
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